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1 The Maya Materialization of Time: An Introduction
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Published:January 2024
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Abstract
In this introductory chapter, the editors begin by pointing out that the materialization of time, the most famous intellectual interest of the ancient Maya, was aspirational through charting of the future through prophecy and divination as well as contemplative of the past in myth and historical chronicle. They then outline important themes of the ensuing chapters beginning with the gathering of sustained collective labor to create the ceremonial centers celebrating and counting the passage of days and nights that precede and anticipate the complex communities that would emerge surrounding them, investments in the future termed landesque cosmography. From identifying sacred places as embodiments of mythical creatures of creation time, to the centering and laying out of civic-religious architecture as calendrical cosmographs, to the places of learning and study of time through mathematics and calendar calculation, to the summary recognition that some contemporary Maya speakers sustain the balanced notions that cyclical and accumulative time materializations are embodied by people just as time is a living force to be nurtured and embraced, the editors invite readers to continue.
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